"Arnold J. Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to set up my dial-up system for mail relaying via mx.freenet.de > and they are using smtp-auth to accept every mail from someone who has an > email-account on their system. I read a couple of articles about the > configuration of postfix and set up /etc/postfix/main.cf with all mentioned > parameters and options. Postfix is seat up to reconfigure via the pon/poff > scripts. > > I have no idea why, but when I'm examing the mail-relay with > telnet mx.freenet.de 25 > and an > EHLO linux.example.com > it seems to me, as in the log file excerpt that they are using smtp-auth. But > I the only thing I'm seeing is "No mechs available" and no connection. > > The box is a Debian 3.0r1. > The attachment is a piece of from /var/log/mail.log > > Any ideas?!
I don't know about postfix, but with sendmail I had a similar message. It went away after installing libsasl-digestmd5-plain and/or libsasl-modules-plain. Regards, Olaf.

